Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) bashed former President Trump online and said Christians who support him “don’t understand” their religion.

“I’m going to go out on a NOT limb here: this man is not a Christian,” Kinzinger said on X, formerly known as Twitter, responding to Trump’s Christmas post. “If you are a Christian who supports him you don’t understand your own religion.”

Kinzinger, one of Trump’s fiercest critics in the GOP, said in his post that “Trump is weak, meager, smelly, victim-ey, belly-achey, but he ain’t a Christian and he’s not ‘God’s man.’”

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    They’re reactionary nationalists; I think they understand their religion just fine.

    That’s kind of the whole problem with basing one’s worldview on magical thinking though: when you have to interpret moral instructions, its only as good as the lens you use. In this case, their religion is filtered through fear, bigotry, and power politics.

    I have much more respect for Christians who use humanism as their lens, but they’re also picking and choosing what they want to from the Bible Buffet.

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      10 months ago

      Realistically, there’s no shortage of Christians who are just in it for the abuse. They like the way bigotry feels and the church gives them plenty of targets.